October has fallen upon us!

The weather is changing and so is our fall schedule. Just wanted to remind you of the day off from school on Friday, Oct. 14th. It's a teacher work day. Also, our new conference schedule invites you to join us this month for an update on your child's learning journey. October 19th through Oct. 21st are the dates. The 19th will be an early dismissal day for students and the 20th and 21st are full days for teachers to conference. Students do not come to school on those days. 

It was great to see all the dads and special guests for owl pellet dissection! We also had a live owl visit,  thanks to the West Valley Learning Center. Our goal is to gather information from several sources to write an opinion piece on an owl adaptation.  Be sure to ask about everything we've learned so far about the owl's super powers.

Writing: Happily, we have finished going through the writing process. Working together we wrote an informational paragraph about Jackson Pollock and explored the different elaborations we'll be using this year in our writing. It is typed up and ready for conferences. Yay!

Math: Our target has been rounding to the nearest hundred, thousand, ten thousands, and hundred thousands place. Ask your mathematician how the latest assessment went. Other standards on the assessment included reading and writing numbers to the millions place in standard form, expanded form, unit form, and word form as well as comparing numbers using symbols.

Science: Isopods have joined our mealworms. We did an investigation to find out what moisture conditions they prefer. Have your scientist explain our investigation and what we discovered.

Reading: Congratulations to these readers! They all met the first goal. Thank you Mrs. Peffer and Mrs. Green for meeting with readers to check reading logs weekly!

So much fun wearing pjs, munching on popcorn, sipping juice and watching a movie!

Art: Mrs. DeGroat led us in a fun art lesson! Check out these creative monsters. Look for texture, color, and interesting features.

This week's one to answer: Name 2 super powers of the amazing owl.